Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----until we see the text of an agreement worked up.

Let us consider what we are looking at here. When we talked here last Thursday, many people anticipated that what would be discussed at the summit would be the question of the amendment of the European treaties. As things turned, that is not what emerged from the summit. What emerged from the summit was an agreement to progress an international agreement, which has to be developed and worked on. There is a great deal of technical, detailed work to be done on it and a text will have to be produced. A timetable has been set down for the working out of that agreement, which is prior to March.

When we have the text of that agreement, we will look and see whether a referendum is required.

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